Re: [PATCH] De-constify sched.h

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Oct 26 2007 - 05:44:53 EST


On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> 2) There is no such thing as const task_struct. Anyone who think otherwise
> deserves compiler warning.
>

A 'const struct task_struct *' can be used as an annotation to mean that
no member of the struct is modified through that pointer, so it's
perfectly acceptable to qualify formals in that manner.
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